Ron Jude’s new book Lick Creek Line is ostensibly a story about a fur trapper in Central Idaho. But underlying his photographs, which follow the man as he checks his trap lines in a wild area being developed as a resort community, are questions and ideas about what can be learned or known about a person or place through documentary...

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February 12, 2018
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